Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Psychological science is traditionally defined as the study of behavior; neuroscience as the study of the nervous system. As a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences we are focused on understanding mind and behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes that have their genesis in neural activity in the brain.

Dave Bucci was awarded the Pavlovian Research Award at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society (2014), held this year in Seattle, WA. The Pavlovian Research Award is highly prestigious, and awarded for significant research accomplishments. Photo credit: W. J. Wilson.

Land 0' Lakes pledges $2.5 million to establish the endowed Land O' Lakes Chair in Marketing at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; a position to be held by Professor of Excellence in Marketing Kathleen Vohs, a 2000 Psychology and Brain Science PhD graduate.

Alessandro Pizzo has been named a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow. The program is designed to provide neuroscience doctoral trainees with career development and networking opportunities to promote their future success.

Dartmouth researchers demonstrate in a new study that a previously understudied part of the brain, the retrosplenial cortex, is essential for forming the basis for contextual memories, which help you to recall events ranging from global disasters to where you parked your car.

Dr. Travis Todd, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor David Bucci’s laboratory, has received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health entitled “Cortico-hippocampal Contributions to Context and Extinction Learning.”